Improvement in skates



JQP. BE'OKER, Jr.

Skate.

No. 197,008. Patented Nov. 13, I877.

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JOHANNTETER BECKER, JR, OF REMSOHEID, GERMANY.

IMPROVEM ENT IN SKATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,008, dated November 13, 1877 application filed October 3, 1877.

My invention relates to devices for secur-,

ing the skate to the boot or shoe of the user, constituting a lever-adjustment for skates; and it consists in the lever-adjustment, as will be fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a skate embodying'my invention; and Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly in section, of the same as seen from underneath the skate.

w is the foot-plate of the skate, secured to the rail 1) in any desirable manner. This footplate is provided with spurs or projections at its heel, of any number and well-known form, to catch into the heel of the boot or shoe. Located beneath this foot-plate are two plates, a, having slots cl at an angle to the rail of the skate. Screws or rivets e pass through the slots 01, and are secured in any suitable manner in the foot-plate w. The heads of these screws or rivets e serve to partially support the plates at in the various positions they occupy when the skate is used.

These plates are provided with clamps a, which project above the foot-plate w, and serve to grasp the sole of the boot or shoe, and are connected together by means of a screw or rivet, 1", which passes through a slot, 8, in the foot-plate, and is capable of sliding lengthwise therein, its head resting upon the foot-plate. The screw or rivetr also connects one end of a spring-lever, b, to the plates or, so that they and it may turn upon said rivet or screw.

This spring-lever b is provided with a slide, m, which works in a slot, 0, in an adjustingpiece, 0, the projecting end of this slide being provided with a nut, 00, by means of which the lever and adjusting-piece 0 can be connected together and the latter adjusted.

The heel-clamp u is secured by a rivet passing through a slot, 0), in the foot-plate, secured to the adjusting-piece c, said rivet being capable of movement lengthwise in said slot 2;.

The end of the lever 11 is provided with a convenient grasp for the fingers, and with a projection, t, which, when the lever is in position after the clamps have been closed upon the boot or shoe, springs into a corresponding recess in the under side of the foot-plate.

By means of the adjusting-piece c the clamps can be adjusted to the boot or shoe of the wearer by loosening the nut 00, and moving it to the right or left over the slide m, the same as in the well known Halifax skate. I

When the skate is to be fastened to the boot or shoe of the user, the lever b is turned at an angle to the rail 1), and pressed forward as far as possible, thus causing the plates a to move, and, by means of their angular slots d, to widen the distance between the clamps a. The boot or shoe then being placed upon the foot-plate w, the lever b is turned toward the rail 1), thus causing the adjusting-piece c to force the heel-clamp a backward against the heel, and the plates at forward, which,

'through their angular slots d, move their clamps a inward against the edges of the sole, ,thus firmly clamping or securing the boot or shoe to the skate. The projection t then catches in its recess, and retains the lever b in position.

To remove the skate, the lever b is again turned at an angle to the rail 10, when the plates to and their clamps to, and the heelclamp u, have the motions first described repeated, and thus release their hold upon the heel and sole of the boot or shoe;

It is obvious that these devices may be used with roller-skates as well as with those havin g rails.

By my invention devices for fastening the skate to the boot or shoe are provided, simple m, and adjusting-piece 0, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHANN PETER BECKER, JR.

Vitnesses BERNHARD SOHENK, FRANZ HAGENBORN. 

